Lifetime of a local reference

[Gregory Ewing]

Thomas Jollans wrote:
> If the inspect module's stack frame inspection machinery is supported,
> then any function call might access any local... (though I don't think a
> compliant Python implementation necessarily has to support the inspect
> module fully).

You can be devious even without using the expect module:

def fun():
     f = open("lock.txt", "w")
     do_stuff(innocent_argument)

do_stuff = exec
innocent_argument = "f.write('foo')"

-- 
Greg